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Suburban Shootings

September 30, 2016

A man wanted in connection with last weekend’s fatal shooting near the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus turned himself in to police Thursday night. Robbie M. Patton, 18, surrendered to police about 10:15 p.m., according to a statement from the Champaign Police Department. He was ordered held on $5 million bail after he was charged…

August 10, 2016

Sun-Times Wire-Four people were wounded in a shooting Tuesday night in north suburban Evanston. Officers responded shortly after 10 p.m. to a call of a shooting near Foster Street and Jackson Avenue, according to a statement from Evanston police. Witnesses told them multiple people were standing in the area when a suspect in a field…

June 26, 2016

A 30-year-old man was fatally shot by police Sunday morning while robbing someone at gunpoint outside of a gas station in south suburban Dolton. Two officers responding to a call of an armed robbery at a Shell gas station at 1445 E. Sibley Blvd. about 5 a.m. observed a man pointing a pistol at someone…

June 5, 2016

The family of a 16-year-old boy from suburban Chicago says he was shot in the head Friday night while sitting on his porch and is on life support at a hospital. Dawson Stephan’s brother tells the Chicago Tribune the teen was with two friends on the porch of their home in Melrose Park when someone…

May 11, 2016

Two people in south suburban Country Club Hills were hit by a barrage of bullets Tuesday night. “It was like a blast of I don’t know, 10, 12, 13 shots,” said neighbor Tom Meegan. According to one witness, a man sitting outside on a home porch was shot in the head. The medical examiner identified…